Scott Stringer

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News about Scott Stringer, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 27, 2015

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer, self-described social justice advocate, has used his office in unusual ways in order to advance civil rights goals; has reached series of financial settlements with people wrongfully convicted of crimes, and has attacked city's low rate of contracting with female- and minority-owned businesses; also wants to use city's pension fund to pressure investment businesses to embrace greater diversity. MORE

Jul. 17, 2015

Jim Dwyer About New York column says Comptroller Scott M Stringer has approved payments of $37.8 million in seven high-profile cases that involved claims of abuses of power, including police death of Eric Garner and wrongful imprisonment of others; says no explanations of wrongdoing have been offered in spite of payments. MORE

Jul. 14, 2015

Audit conducted by New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer finds that many repairs in public housing are still being made at lumbering pace, and recommends city invest in technology to track work. MORE

Jul. 2, 2015

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer finds widespread misuse by several city agencies of arcane payment method that may have circumvented competitive bidding process on some expenditures. MORE

Jun. 16, 2015

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer says his office plans to independently review addresses of boarding houses where city agencies send addicts and people with nowhere else to go as part of effort to weed out unscrupulous operators; officials say city's push to reduce number of homeless shelters has resulted in hundreds of so-called three-quarter homes. MORE

May. 11, 2015

Report by Comptroller Scott M Stringer warns that New York City's public hospital system will face deficit of more than $1 billion by 2017 should federal cuts take place as scheduled; government plans to cut subsidies to public hospitals based on theory that millions of people who are newly insured under Affordable Care Act will exert less pressure on system. MORE

Apr. 20, 2015

Audit by New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer reveals faulty practices by Animal Care and Control of New York, nonprofit group that cares for city's stray and unwanted animals; finds that group administered unsafe drugs and stored vaccines improperly. MORE

Apr. 14, 2015

Editorial suggests public should be outraged by revelation from New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer that city's five public-employee pension funds have made net gain of zero due to exorbitant money management fees; expresses disbelief that series of comptrollers and fund managers, including Stringer himself, never sought to address the high fees, and urges Stringer to name names and identify firms that charged such rates. MORE

Apr. 9, 2015

Analysis by New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer finds that city's five pension funds have received virtually nothing in return after paying some $2.5 billion in fees to money managers; remains unclear what changes will be instituted in wake of findings. MORE

Jan. 14, 2015

Editorial welcomes announcement by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer that city will remit total of $17 million to Robert Hill, Alvena Jennette and Darryl Austin, who were wrongly convicted of murders due to corrupt tactics of homicide detective Louis Scarcella; concedes that payout is less than men may have gotten through civil lawsuit, but that at least it is immediate and certain; calls on every state to set up some sort of monetary compensation for those who have been wrongly convicted and imprisoned. MORE

Jan. 12, 2015

New York City comptroller Scott M Stringer settles claims based on wrongful murder convictions of Robert Hill, Alvena Jennette and Darryl Austin, and agrees to pay them $17 million; their convictions were vacated in May 2014; payout is part of strategy to resolve potential lawsuits before they reach court. MORE

Dec. 18, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer releases audit showing city's Housing Authority, which faces large budget deficit and unfunded capital needs of about $18 billion, missed opportunities to obtain nearly $700 million in federal funding; Stringer accuses the public housing agency of bureaucratic incompetence. MORE

Dec. 17, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer is trying to negotiate settlement of $75 million civil rights claim brought by family of Eric Garner, who died after being put into police chokehold; move is part of Stringer's strategy to settle major civil rights claims before lawsuits are formally filed, in effort to avoid lengthy trial, save taxpayer dollars and bring closure to claimants and their families. MORE

Dec. 4, 2014

Tensions between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and city's comptroller Scott M Stringer heighten over proposal to replace city's public pay phones with Wi-Fi hot spots; Stringer asserts that de Blasio's plan will perpetuate digital class divide by providing faster service in more affluent neighborhoods; remarks are seen as stinging criticism for an administration that prides itself on being sensitive to inequality. MORE

Nov. 27, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer says city has missed out on as much as $120 million since being suspended from E-rate federal technology program in 2011 due to investigation into Education Department, and that figure could reach $300 million by 2018; inquiry was prompted by allegations that former city technology consultant Willard Lanham was stealing money from department. MORE

Nov. 6, 2014

Band of institutional shareholders led by New York City comptroller Scott M Stringer is mounting first push ever at 75 American companies to allow investors to hire and fire directors directly; plan is intended to bring greater accountability to corporate boardrooms. MORE

Oct. 31, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer announces plan to audit financial and operating practices of Success Academy, as well as three other charter schools; advocacy organization New York City Charter School Center immediately challenges Stringer's plan, saying his authority to audit charter schools is limited to finances. MORE

Oct. 17, 2014

New York City comptroller Scott Stringer reports that city spent record $1.1 billion to run jails in 2014 fiscal year, nearly twice amount spent per inmate in other large cities; Correction Department is under pressure to rein in violence following series of reports about harsh jail conditions, but falling inmate population and higher ratio of guards to prisoners have produced counterintuitive result, with assaults by guards and inmate violence on rise. MORE

Oct. 2, 2014

Comptroller Scott M Stringer unveils letter-grading system that rates New York City agencies in terms of their spending on goods and services provided by businesses owned by women and minorities; inaugural report gives city overall grade of D, reflecting fact that only 3.9 percent of city's procurement budget went to such businesses. MORE

Sep. 13, 2014

Board of trustees at Queens Public Library puts embattled president Thomas W Galante on leave as officials continue probe into spending; also moves to give city comptroller Scott M Stringer full access to library's financial records. MORE

Aug. 30, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer criticizes city's rollout of prekindergarten expansion, saying that hundreds of contracts with organizations offering prekindergarten had not been delivered to him for vetting; office of Mayor Bill de Blasio pushes with unusually strong response, dismissing Stringer's concerns; clash hints that this may be start of new political rivalry. MORE

Aug. 28, 2014

Office of New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer says Education Department, with one week before school begins, has delivered for review only 141 of more than 500 contracts with organizations that will be teaching prekindergarten classes; department has made repeated requests for documents. MORE

Aug. 20, 2014

Report from New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer says personal-injury claims against the Correction Dept have more than doubled from 2009 to 2014; links the 114 percent increase to inmates with mental health issues and the use of solitary confinement, especially at Rikers Island Prison Complex; adds to growing body of evidence of disturbing practices at Rikers, and is part of program called ClaimStat, which is aimed at studying claims against city in effort to curb future lawsuits and settlements. MORE

Aug. 20, 2014

Editorial welcomes new initiative by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer known as ClaimStat, which will use copious amounts of data about lawsuits and claims filed each year against city to save money and solve problems; expresses hope that initiative will operate in similar way to CompStat, which has helped New York Police Department reduce crime. MORE

Jul. 25, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer releases stinging audit of New York City Housing Authority, charging that it has repeatedly broken agreement to hire certain percentage of public housing residents or low-income New Yorkers in awarding building contracts. MORE

Jul. 16, 2014

Growing national movement fueled by women's and labor groups seeks to curb workplace scheduling practices that impose part-time work or unpredictable schedules on employees, wreaking havoc with responsibilities like child and elder care; Vermont and San Francisco have adopted laws giving workers right to request flexible or predictable schedules, and New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer is pressing City Council to take up such legislation. MORE

May. 15, 2014

High-stakes tug of war is unfolding between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott M Stringer over settlement with city's teachers' union; de Blasio says his administration will make $725 million adjustment to its settlement with union after Stringer spotted accounting issue. MORE

May. 13, 2014

De Blasio administration bows to pressure from New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer, announcing that it is shifting $725 million in retroactive pay for teachers it had sought to spread over four years into current fiscal year's budget; Stringer and his aides argued that the budget plan did not comply with generally accepted accounting principles that the city is legally bound to follow. MORE

Apr. 7, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer plans to release a report showing that many public schools in the city do not offer any kind of arts education, and that the lack of arts instruction disproportionately affects low-income neighborhoods; shortage is acute in low-income areas like the South Bronx and central Brooklyn, where more than 42 percent of the schools do not have state-certified arts teachers. MORE

Apr. 3, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer is issuing directive that he says will standardize how information technology contracts are handled across all city agencies; city has been burned for years by boondoggles, fraud and delays in its biggest computerization contracts, and new plan will put in place measures that could improve oversight and keep projects from spiraling out of control. MORE

Feb. 27, 2014

City Comptroller Scott M Stringer, in report, points to what he describes as curiosities in how four milk distributors won and then delivered on $134 million in school contracts in 2008; report notes no proof that companies colluded, but at news conference Stringer lets it be known he suspects the four companies made unseemly business arrangement. MORE

Feb. 22, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer defends his decision to pay $6.4 million to David Ranta, man imprisoned for 23 years after being wrongfully convicted of murder, without involving city's Law Dept; city officials and lawyers say decision has no precedent in recent history, and could have ramifications for similar cases. MORE

Feb. 10, 2014

Scott M. Stringer will urge Apple investors to vote against a proposal for a stock buyback worth $50 billion. MORE

Jan. 30, 2014

New York City Comptroller Scott M Stringer proposes changes to city's pension system that would require pension managers to regularly report personal investment transactions, and ban placement agents for investment managers from doing business with $150 billion retirement system. MORE

Nov. 7, 2013

News analysis examines direction New York City will now take, given that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio is a liberal Democrat, as are newly elected public advocate Letitia James and City Comptroller Scott M Stringer. MORE

Oct. 31, 2013

Editorial endorses Scott Stringer for New York City Comptroller; asserts that Stringer is better qualified than his Republican opponent John Burnett and holds that Stringer would bring the right mix of experience, doggedness, political skills and integrity to the job. MORE

Oct. 9, 2013

Scott M Stringer, Democratic candidate for New York City comptroller, engages in first general election debate with Republican rival John Burnett; Burnett lashes out at Stringer for not attending meetings of a pension board on which he sits and accuses him of not understanding financial terms; Stringer questions Burnett about continuing government shutdown and looming debt crisis. MORE

Oct. 6, 2013

Audrey Gelman, political ingenue who worked on Scott Stringer's successful campaign for New York City comptroller, is also known for her fashion sense and provocative older boyfriend, photographer Terry Richardson. MORE

Sep. 11, 2013

Scott M Stringer defeats Eliot Spitzer in Democratic primary for New York City comptroller, ruining Spitzer's bid for political redemption. MORE

Sep. 10, 2013

Scott M Stringer and Eliot Spitzer head into the final hours of their too-close-to-call Democratic primary for New York City comptroller; political consultants say contest will be between Stringer’s larger field operation and Spitzer’s money and greater name recognition. MORE

Sep. 5, 2013

Eliot Spitzer and Scott M Stringer, Democratic candidates for New York City comptroller, face off at tense forum in Manhattan organized by Council of Urban Professionals; Quinnipiac University poll shows candidates are in statistical dead heat. MORE

Aug. 30, 2013

Trailside blog; Scott M Stringer and Eliot Spitzer are vying for women's votes as polls show widely different results in race for New York City comptroller; women are a crucial battleground, not only because Stringer sees Spitzer’s history of patronizing prostitutes as vulnerability, but also because women are expected to make up about 60 percent of voters in Sept 10 Democratic primary. MORE

Aug. 24, 2013

Trailside blog; Scott M Stringer, Democrat who is Manhattan borough president and a candidate for city comptroller, took over management of a Manhattan bar called Simon Sez in 1990, but it closed after a dispute with landlord George H Beane, who says he remains aggrieved at the actions of Stringer and his partners. MORE

Aug. 23, 2013

Scott M Stringer and Eliot Spitzer, Democratic candidates for New York City comptroller, have their final televised debate; among the usual sharp exchanges are moments of levity and even a little singing. MORE

Aug. 22, 2013

Trailside blog; Scott M Stringer is stepping up efforts to reach black voters as polls show Eliot Spitzer leading in Democratic primary for New York City comptroller, buoyed by strong support among African-Americans. MORE

Aug. 20, 2013

Trailside blog; former Gov David A Paterson finds himself in difficult position of having endorsed Scott M Stringer in New York City's race for comptroller prior to the entry of Eliot Spitzer into the race; Paterson, who served as lieutenant governor under Spitzer, says he will not switch his endorsement but does comment that Spitzer would do a 'fantastic job' as comptroller. MORE

Aug. 19, 2013

New York Times, Daily News and New York Post endorse Manhattan Borough President Scott M Stringer for city comptroller; endorsement is potential boost for Stringer, who is trailing Eliot Spitzer by as much as 19 points in recent polls. MORE

Aug. 19, 2013

Scott M Stringer, Manhattan borough president and candidate for city comptroller, has repeatedly accused Democratic primary opponent Elliot Spitzer of having engaged in money laundering by way he transferred money to Emperor's Club VIP escort services while he was governor; Spitzer says Stringer is misstating facts. MORE

Scott M. Stringer, New York City’s comptroller, said misuse of an arcane system allowed agencies to circumvent contract regulations and restricted oversight of vendors with integrity and performance issues.